Generational cyclical patterns from "summary" of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Buendía family in Macondo seemed to be caught in an inescapable cycle of repetition, where patterns and events were doomed to recur with each new generation. As one Buendía after another took up the same struggles and made the same mistakes, it became clear that history was not progressing but merely repeating itself. The fall of the family was foretold by José Arcadio Buendía's infatuation with alchemy and his quest for knowledge beyond human limits. This obsession with the unknown led to the arrival of the gypsies, who brought with them both the promise of progress and the seeds of destruction. From that moment on, the Buendía family was fated to be haunted by the ghosts of the past. Each generation of Buendías seemed to be doomed to relive the mistakes of those who came before them. The same names, the same passions, the same tragedies played out time and time again, as though the family was trapped in a never-ending cycle of rep...
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